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61) Shadow and bone
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Language
English
Description
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life -- a power that could be...
62) The speaker
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
Author
Series
Silver Hills trilogy volume 1
Publisher
F.H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Dr. Letitia Morgan comes to Hartville, Colorado, in the late 1800s to follow her God-given calling to heal. Soon she becomes Hartville's ministering angel, reaching out to the children of the town drunk, and skillfully touching all who need her. But not everyone warms to the lovely new physician and Letty ruffles plenty of feathers when she takes on Hartville's thriving brothels. As she rescues first one then another young girl forced into the sordid...
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Language
English
Description
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find...
65) Little century
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range war. A story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America
66) Heaven Eyes
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Language
English
Description
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past
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English
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From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, SEMInarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline. And meanwhile Jayber learns the art of devotion and that a faithful love is its own reward.
69) Come to the edge
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
After he is befriended by a sign painter, a confused runaway finds trust and a purpose for living.
70) Faith Fox
Author
Language
English
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Description
Emotionally abandoned by her father and maternal grandmother when her birth results in her mother's death, young Faith Fox is raised by an unlikely group, including the owners of a commune and her bickering paternal grandparents
71) Daddy-Long-Legs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen
73) The invocations
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer's clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate"--Provided by publisher.
74) Heidi
Author
Language
English
Description
Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kim Vogel Sawyer, ACF Book of the Year winner for Waiting for Summer's Return, delivers historically rich tales with unforgettable characters. After an 1886 fire kills their parents, three children are split up. Keeping her parents' love letters, Maelle entrusts the family's picture to Mattie and its Bible to Molly. And, in a tearful parting, eight-year-old Maelle's vows to one day find her younger siblings.
Author
Series
Shenandoah sisters volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Shenandoah Sisters Book 4, the sequel to The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart. For over a year, Mayme--a former slave--and Katie have lived together on Katie's plantation, hiding the fact that they are orphans of war to avoid being separated. Together they have sheltered others and battled threats of foreclosure, theft, and deadly danger. But now the girls face what seems like the certain end of their scheme. A hard-nosed relative...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and...
79) Runaways
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Orphans volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
80) The innocents
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--
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